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My mother annoys me

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My mother annoys me
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RE: My mother annoys me
February 24, 2012 at 5:01 am
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

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RE: My mother annoys me
February 24, 2012 at 1:33 pm
(February 24, 2012 at 5:01 am)tackattack Wrote: Teaching Chirstianity in a school enviornment as if it's fact is preposterous, and I'll never send my kids to one of those type of schools. The very crux of the Abrahamic religions is faith, which has nothing to do with any of the sciences at all. People can grow up to believe religion, because they probably have a different understanding of the tenants than you grew up believing that's far less unbelievable. I'm sorry you can't control yourself with Christians, sounds like a personal problem. Perhaps it starts with determining that someone is willfully ignorant and stupid because they don't believe what you do (or more precisely in more than you do as atheism is a lack of belief)?

Teaching ANYTHING non-factual to small children is preposterous, in any environment, including “bible school”. People that grow up still believing religion were indoctrinated as children and have an extreme fear of death that can only be ameliorated by having “faith” that death is not final.
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RE: My mother annoys me
February 27, 2012 at 3:57 am
@Strongbad - People teach life values and lessons to children all the time. They're not factual just an opinion. It's not preposterous, it's how they learn and grow. I'm not raising a robot. I'm raising a thinking, feeling moral member of society. That teaching (which I agree with you on) doesn't include fear or indoctination.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

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